Well, not really sanity, but at least a slight recognition of reality. The linked article makes me wonder, though, why he couldn’t simply pay people more, or even import americans from somewhere where not everyone looking for a job is drugged out.
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Unfortunately, that’s not realistic for small business owners.
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Why not? Especially for someone with a job like this, where all of his competitors are in the same boat.
(And as usual, if the economy is supposedly booming and wonderful, only it’s still impossible for people to get paid higher wages, then something is off, and not in denmark.)
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America’s Nazi moment continues unabated.
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Maybe the net effect of these racist policies will be a migration of minority urbanites to rural areas, to avoid work requirements in urban areas that are not achievable because there is no work. I wonder if that might trigger a reversal of the policies?
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I never thought the leopards would eat my face.
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“A Washington Post analysis
found that while African Americans make up about 23 percent of Medicaid
enrollees in Michigan, they would make up just 1.2 percent of the
people eligible for an exemption. Meanwhile, 57 percent of Michigan
Medicaid enrollees are white, but white residents would make up 85
percent of the population eligible for an exemption.”
Of course it’s not racially motivated - it just happened that way. Let’s ask Huckabee-Sanders what she thinks.
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Now would be the perfect time for these proud inhabitants of real America to stand up and forcefully repeat that which they’ve shouted for decades, that they do not want any handouts.
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Racist is as racist does. They are showing their true racist colors with this. The impact is not neutral. It’s a total disparate impact. See you in court.
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Even without the racist angle it sounds like the logic is “Lazy welfare people need to work to earn it, unless it’s one of the super-lazy places where unemployment is highest, then they don’t,” which seems inconsistent.
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How would such a carve out not violate the Equal Protection clause?
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Michigan Governor candidate and AG Bill Schuette is running ads on this issue. He makes a deal of talking about people who think they can game the system and not have to work for a living. (Paraphrase from memory). Total dog whistle IMO, and he is certainly stigmatizing the poor in this ad.
Schuette’s stepfather was Chairman of Dow. Schuette said he put his assets in a blind trust as AG, but it turns out he was involved in transactions for property in the Virgin Islands as AG.
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Am I the only one to notice that this piece sounds like it was drawn almost entirely from an article in the New York Times last week?
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A reverse of the Great Migration?
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And it will one of ZTE’s models, so that China can preserve jobs in China.
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Attorney’s Getting All the Money.
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You all do realize that the next step will be to lower the minimum wage for Medicaid workers.
Someone’s got to replace all those undocumented housekeepers and lawn mowers and roofers in that wealthy ring of suburbs, right? And it wouldn’t make sense to punish employers by asking them not to take advantage of a large pool of more-or-less forced labor sitting right there at their doorsteps.
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That said, just hang on a bit longer, y’all. Wealth from Republican economic policies is just about ready to trickle down to you.[/quote]Yep, it’s been about a half-hour since their last beer; I swear I can hear 'em unzipping their fly…
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Krugman looks at Donald’s other health care changes
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The Affordable Care Act is an inefficient kluge. It sought to approximate universal health insurance by softening the edges of inconvenient realities about health care and health insurance, which were deemed too entrenched and insurmountable to repeal and replace all at once.
This is the Republicans’ answer to Obamacare, only what they’re struggling to approximate is slavery.
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